Format:
Book
Author:
LeZotte, Ann Clare, author.
Title:
Show me a sign / Ann Clare LeZotte.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Description:
269 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 8-12. Scholastic Press.
Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press.
Subjects:
Deaf children -- Massachusetts -- Chilmark -- Fiction.
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Deaf -- Fiction.
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Identity -- Fiction.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction.
Sign language -- Fiction.
Chilmark (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Notes:
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
LCCN:
2019027510
ISBN:
9781338255812
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
1141932
Call Number:
J LEZOTTE
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
4
# System items in:
4